Sunday, October 27, 2024

Ford Tri-Motor Pioneers Commercial Flight

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Restored Ford Tri-Motor In today's jetsetter world, commercial air travel is taken for granted by most people, but in the 1920s the aero...
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Saturday, October 19, 2024

Remembering Detroit's Qwikee Donut and Coffee Shops

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A young, optimistic Russian blacksmith named John Weise migrated to Detroit in the late 1920s, just in time for the Great Depression. Its st...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

Samuel Zug - The Man Behind the Island

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Samuel Zug Samuel Zug is thought by some people to have been an industrialist, but that couldn't be further from the truth. He wa...
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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Detroit's Speedboat Champion Gar Wood

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Garfield "Gar" Wood One of the least remembered Detroit sports celebrities is speedboat champion Garfield "Gar" Aut...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Bill Bonds and WXYZ Channel 7 Action News

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Bill Bonds WXYZ-TV Ratings Leader       "It's hard being Bill Bonds. You can't even imagine." --Bill Bonds No other Detro...
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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Brave New World of Betty Boop

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Classic Betty Boop Sketch Betty Boop was a music novelty character who was a sex symbol during the Great Depression. She was a caricat...
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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Hoarders Henry and Clara B. Ford

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Clara B. and Henry Ford After Mrs. Clara Bryant Ford died at the age of eighty-four on September 29, 1950, lawyers, executors, and archivist...
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